2 Years: Success!

So we're very proud today. August has been accepted into the school we like. It's a bit embarrassing to be embroiled in the world of competitive admissions processes so early, but that's life in the big city. In truth, we weren't surprised—for a number of reasons. One is that he aced his little interview (they call it a group session or something like that, but really it's an interview w/ 3-4 kids, simultaneously). I was the one who took him. I knew it was going well right away because he immediately engaged with the instructors (who seemed charmed by him, as most do). But I thought maybe he sealed the deal when he grabbed the toy cow out of the barn, pointed to the udders and said "milk".

So we're very happy about it, and way too proud given that he's TWO!

2 Years: More Photos

August at home and August with Mommy on the Commonwealth Ave. Mall:

2 Years: Couple of Photos

From recent weekend activities:

Walking around downtown 2 weeks ago:


Today at the "Make Way for Ducklings" statues in the Public Garden:

2 Years: Running Around in the Mall

Just to document one of August's favorite winter-time activities... running up & down the slight ramp that leads away from one of the busier parts of our local mall. When the playground is wet or under snow, or if the wind blows super cold, we do this instead of hit the playground. He gets a lot of good running!



And here's a picture of August with Mommy, who's due April 21.

2 Years: Silly Face

You might recognize this popular photo of August/Daddy silly-face from Mary's Facebook feed:



Well here's our guy in action, flashing his curly-lipped silly face during a pancake breakfast. Off camera, I'm playing too. The game has always been to see who can make the face to make the other laugh first.

2 Years: Travellin' Man: - Part Deux

Remember this post, where we outlined the boundaries of where August had been in his life? He was only 6 months old when this was the bounding box of his earthly travels (rule is: the area never "indents", can only be expanded outward like a blob... all inner angles are less than 180°):


Well after all the travel we've done in the past 9 months or so, the map has grown impressively:


If you look carefully, you can see the old area in bright pink at the top-right... he's a travellin' man indeed.

Update
A bounding box for August's extreme N, S, E, and W points:

2 Years: Heritage

Two photos of August's heritage.

The first was discovered while browsing for name ideas in "Watson Family Notes" - a family memoir written by August's great grandfather, Robert C. Watson. This was one of the houses in Washington, DC that was built by his father James (August's great great grandfather), probably somewhere between 1900 and 1910:


A quick trip to Google Maps and Street View shows the house still standing, no noticeable exterior renovations:


16th St. & Park Rd, NW, Washington DC. The Mt. Pleasant neighborhood, in which "the residents, particularly the young, could live happily" - according to Grandpa Watson. When I was a boy growing up in the DC area, and probably well into the 90's, the Mt. Pleasant neighborhood was a bit iffy. Looking at this photo it looks as if it's doing quite well. More power to Mt. Pleasant of yesterday and today.